Arafat’s Demise will not lead to Peace – Abbas Acts as his Protege

Yasir Arafat's demise in November excited great hopes among those who saw his malign personality as the main reason for Palestinian intransigence. But those of us who saw the problem as larger than Arafat -...

Congress Mulls Conditions for Aid to P.A.

Congressmen are deciding whether to demand that the Palestinian Authority take concrete steps to stop anti-Israeli incitement as a condition for American aid to the territories.Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives...

“Ethnic cleansing is deplorable to the rest of the world world, but here, it...

David Bronfman, a member of the famed philanthropic Canadian Jewish family, announced yesterday a $100,000 contribution toward the struggle against the disengagement plan. During a tour of Neveh Dekalim, the Toronto native, who has previously...

Not Quite What We Are Led to Believe

Now that the residents of the Katif district of Gaza have been forcibly expelled from their homes, a picture - promoted by the Palestinian Authority and its supporters - is being painted in the...

UJC (UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES) Brochure on Situation of the Evacuees

Facts About Israel's Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria NUMBER OF SETTLEMENTS EVACUATED: Gaza Strip: 21 Northern Samaria: 4 NUMBER PERSONS EVACUATED: Gaza Strip: 8470 individuals from 1812 families Northern Samaria: 670 individuals...

Nazareth and the next war

We are not done yet with the current war in Lebanon and clear signs of the next war have become very apparent and from a city seldom in the news. Nazareth is an old...

When NGO’s Take Sides

This op-ed was originally published in The Jerusalem Post The war with Hizbullah, like all Israel's confrontations with terror groups in the past decade, includes a political front that is as important and complex as...

A Message of Accounting for Israel in the New Year

Tomorrow night begins Rosh Hashana. This is a time of accounting. We are bidden to do a heshbon nefesh -- a spiritual accounting. As a people, as well, we must do that accounting. Now especially,...

UNIFIL Spokesman Alexander Ivanko: Our Role is not to Disarm

IMRA interviewed UNIFIL Spokesman Alexander Ivanko, in English, on 4 October. IMRA: I had some questions about the UNIFIL press statement (see full text below). " In situations where the LAF are not in a position...

The Death of Yaakov Yaakobov – Killed in Sderot by an Arab Missile –...

An Israeli civilian, the second in a single week, was killed on Wednesday yesterday during an Arab missile attack on Sderot. Yaakov Yaakobov, a 40-year-old resident of this southern Israeli border town who worked at...